...HealthSouth: The Scrushy Way Vonetta M. Henderson Northcentral University Introduction The Enron and Tyco scandals brought visibility to corporate scandals. The magnitude of these scandals resulted in the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act in 2002. Richard M. Scrushy and HealthSouth Corporation were the first CEO and company to be indicted under the SOX Act. HealthSouth was charged with filing false financial statements with the SEC to hid poor financial conditions from Wall Street. An audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded that HealthSouth overstated its cumulative earnings between $3.8 billion to $4.6 billion (Weld, Bergevin, & Magrath, 2004). Although Scrushy was charged with 85 counts, he pled not-guilty, claiming that he was unaware of the fraudulent activities that had occurred. Scrushy was later exonerated as the investigation into the company found no evidence that Scrushy orchestrated or participated in any financial wrongdoings. Five financial executives and 10 other company officials pled guilty to a variety of charges. Background Richard M. Scrushy founded Amcare, Inc. in 1984. The company opened its first facility in Little Rock, Arkansas and one year later opened a facility in Birmingham and changed its name to HealthSouth Rehabilitation Corporation (HRC). In 1986, HRC went public with its initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange (HealthSouth Corporation, 2010). In 1988, HRC moved to...
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...teammates, Championships, injuries, among other things that certainly make people continue struggles, and see them continuously, the story of the characters is linear. Program Raw on Monday was recorded for the first time in the city of Mexico, which created much commotion that in Mexico there are many followers of this programme and, of course Rey Misterio and recently Alberto del Rio, the two Mexican fighters of the brand. The show was like any other of the engravings in the U.S. without leaving any part of the show, and was a great show. What happened in history: was the first show directed by acting general manager John Laurinaitis, which suddenly started asking for apologies to Jim Ross. We saw several fights as Dolph Ziggler vs Mason Ryan, CM Punk vs. The Miz, but the best were the triple duel between Mark Henry, Cody Rhodes and Christian vs. John Morrison, Sheamus...
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...Phillip Jack "Phil" Brooks[1] (born October 26, 1978),[4] better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE. He is titled in the company as "the longest-reigning WWE Champion of the modern era", having held the title for 434 days from November 20, 2011 to January 27, 2013. Punk is officially recognized as the sixth-longest reigning champion of all time. In professional wrestling, Punk is a seven-time World Champion, having held the ROH World Championship and ECW Championship once each, WWE's World Heavyweight Championship three times, and the WWE Championship twice. He won the World Tag Team Championship (with Kofi Kingston) and the WWE Intercontinental Championship, making him the 19th WWE Triple Crown Champion and the fastest man in WWE history to achieve this feat, in 203 days.[11] Between WWE and Ring of Honor (where he is a two-time World Tag Team Champion), Punk has won a total of 11 championships. He won the 2008 and 2009 Money in the Bank ladder matches (the only wrestler to win the match twice[12]) and the 2011 Superstar of the Year Slammy Award Punk initially came to prominence through his career on the professional wrestling independent circuit, primarily as a member of the ROH roster. There, he was the first head trainer of the ROH wrestling school. Also while competing in ROH, Punk won both the company's championships. In 2005, Punk signed a contract with WWE and was sent to its developmental promotion, Ohio Valley Wrestling...
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...If you are a business, a blogger or you have a website, you must be familiar with Wordpress. If you are not using it yourself, you know of a business or individual using WordPress. Word press is a web platform created through merging entrepreneurial and web development skills, to bring different features. From its first launch in 2003, WordPress has continued to gain more popularity all over the world. At its launch it was just a simple CMS (content management system), but was competent for blogging purposes. It is until recent years that people stopped viewing WordPress as a blogging website, but as a publishing platform for building blogging and building websites. Millions of websites are powered by WordPress. Big companies are also using word press. Word press is a friendly and versatile CMS. What exactly has led to its popularity? These are among the numerous reasons why it has gained acceptance all over the world. Stable plugins and economy. Word press plugins require no other plugins and frequent updates. Word press offers so many quality plugins that functions perfectly well. There are actually free plugins that can do most of the things perfectly well. This reduces the cost of monitoring and frequent maintenance. It is an ideal platform for any business that has little downtime or costly maintenance online presence. Multiple options. Word press recently introduced the option of hosting more than one Wordpress site. On the same installation. This feature...
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...Hypervisors 1 Runner Header: Hypervisors Hypervisors CIS 512 December 16, 2012 Hypervisors 2 In today’s world technology has advance in numerous ways. Technology has given the capabilities to receive, fix, and move objects without being present. This is the concept of virtualization. “Virtualization is the creation of a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, such as an operating system, a server, a storage device or network resources”. The virtualization innovation has assisted companies in a positive way, but also can inflict negative wounds to the organization. Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. The 1960s was when virtualization was first deployed by IBM, itts main purpose was to operate mainframe hardware through separating them into virtual machine. In the 1980s and 1990s virtualization was not needed due to the growing numbers of desktop computing and x86 servers. New issues came to rise such as soaring maintenance and managing cost which lead to the creation of virtualization for x86 platform. Virtualization significantly drops general IT costs. Virtualization permits you to run several operating systems on a single computer. In July 2006 Microsoft made public a free Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 which is a windows hosted virtualization program. The latest version is combined with Windows 7 operating system (http://www.infobarrel.com/History_of_Virtualization)...
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...Legal Issues for Managers Legal Issues for Managers: Potential Liabilities The object of this essay is to advice on potential liabilities of Cena, Rock, Kofi and Punk. First and foremost delivery driver Cena failed to check his trailer was properly coupled to his truck. While driving the trailer detaches, rolling down hill colliding with Rock, a motorcyclist. Due to Cena’s negligence Rock, not wearing a crash helmet suffered severe injuries and damages to his body and motorcycle. Per Lord Atkins “we owe a duty of care if it is reasonable to foresee that another person might suffer damage as a result of our act or omissions”. (Lord Atkins) Rock may state, surely Cena had a duty of care to ensure his vehicle was suited for purpose. Nevertheless, since Rock was not wearing a helmet, Cena may argue that Rock is liable for some of his injuries. Comparably under the case of Smith V Leech Brain & Co Ltd and Another [1962] All Er 1159, Smith incurs fatal injuries when molten metal burns his lips, leading to cancer and eventual death. This being said, Smith “already had a pre-malignant condition”. The defendant argued, “Smith may have contracted cancer due to his condition, regardless of the accident”. (Smith V Leech Brain, 1962) Conversely, but for the burn, Smith may have never developed cancer. According to Thin Skull Rule “a defendant is liable for the full extent of the victim's injuries even if, due to some abnormality or pre-existing condition, the victim...
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...Robert W. Morley NT1210 October 20, 2012 Week 5 Essay VMware has been the market leader in virtualization products for many years now. Microsoft with their “slow but steady” pace in the field has defiantly taken some major leaps and bounds in their offerings to the world of virtualization now. The two solutions that shall be discussed here are VMware’s vSphere 5 and Microsoft’s Hyper-V. While both are great products, and share many of the same basic capabilities, pricing and limitations on said capabilities is what will ultimately separate these two from one another. VMware as stated above has been the industry leader for years when it came to virtualization whether on a single workstation or across an entire network. It has a very easy and logical interface that can be quickly learned by most in a very short time, assuming that the proper networking, deployment, and OS knowledge is already present. VMware’s vSphere 5 does have pricing attached to it, opposed to Microsoft’s Hyper-V which is free and integrates seamlessly into current Window OS configurations. The price for management is not free on either however, and this is where VMware seems to shine with its lower pricing structure. VMware does also offer a bundle/kit pricing where Microsoft does not currently offer that option for the Hyper-V. Virtual migration features will be the next biggest contrast between these two virtualization giants. VMware offers automated live migrations, power management, and storage...
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...14/10/2014 Ans to the question 1 CMS became a buzz word in the web development industry because of its benefits. According to webopedia CMS is software or a group or suite of applications and tools that enable an organization to seamlessly create, edit, review and publish electronic text. From a non technical user’s point of view, A content management system, or CMS, is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website. A CMS keeps track of every piece of content like text, photos, music, video, documents on websites like a librarian who also keeps track of every book. As CMS manages all your content, users requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. It is a major advantage of using a CMS. CMS consists of two elements, Content Management Application (CMA) and Content Delivery Application (CDA). CMSs have been available since the late 1990s. Word Press, Joomla, Blogger, magento are commonly used CMS in business world. Ans to the question 2 E-Commerce refers to the process of buying or selling products or service over an electronic network. Internet usage in Bangladesh is growing at a rapid pace. Recent report says that there are three cores people in Bangladesh have already access to internet communication while two cores more will soon enjoy the facility. It leads to significant changes in the way we go about our daily lives. As a result of it, the e-commerce website is being popular day by day for some...
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...Title: Move of Large Corporate Websites from Static to Dynamic Author: Nepaul Alphonse Jeyaraj Date: 22 April 2010 Authorization: Course Coordinator Subject: IT Project and Quality Management [COMP 1305] Exam Body: University Of Greenwich Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 3 Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Project Contents ......................................................................................................................... 5 One Level Weighted Scoring Model…………………………………………………………………………….6 Content Management System Description………………………………...........................6 Criteria Description…………………………………………………………………………………………...7 Justification………………………………………………………………………..................................7 Why choose Joomla as better CMS compared to other CMS……………………………13 Project Plan to move large corporate website from Static to Dynamic ................................... 14 Work Breakdown Structure………………………………………………………………………………………14 Gantt chart………………………………………………………………………………………………………14 Project Plan…………………….……………………………………………………………………………….16 Resource Utilisation…………………………………………………………………………………………21 Scope, Time and Cost of Project………………………………………………………………………22 Screen Shots .....................................................
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...I. BUSINESS OBJECTIVES 1. Vision & Mission Vision: To be the unparalleled leader in the distribution, development and marketing of natural and organic, wellness, and specialty food products by fulfilling the highest standards for quality, consistency, sustainability, product assortments, dependability, value-added support services and integrity in our business and personal relationships. Mission: To exceed the needs and expectations of all our stakeholders: our customers, associates, natural and specialty product consumers, suppliers, shareholders, communities, the environment and the planet. 2. Commitments To suppliers: to build and sustain fair and honest relationships and be a trusted, dependable distribution resource supported by innovative and effective sales and marketing programs. To consumers: to do our part to bring a wide variety of appealing, wholesome quality products at attractive values to the marketplace To customers: to create partnering relationships of trust, integrity, customer satisfaction and loyalty. To provide the widest selection of natural and organic, wellness, and specialty food products of the highest quality, consistently high in-stock service levels, dependable on-time deliveries, highly competitive pricing, and outstanding marketing programs and services. To employees: to create a nurturing work environment for our associates, by acknowledging the...
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...Industrial Placement Report CC2FW4N: Professional Industrial Placement London Metropolitan University Faculty of Computing Contents INTRODUCTION 3 SKILLS REQUIRED 3 WEB DEVELOPER 4 Web Developer Skills and Qualities 5 Work to be done at Placement. 5 Working As Part Of A Team 6 Website Front And Back End 7 Joomla (Creating Pages) 9 Advantages Of Using Joomla 19 This importance of a HomePage 20 Hosting and Domain Name 21 File Management. 23 Benifits Of File Management 23 Website Testing 26 The Website: 28 Using Facebook for Marketing 30 Using Twitter for Marketing 32 Conclusion 33 Acknowledgements 34 References 35 Provisonal Information Form 37 Student Performance Feedback Questionnaire 38 Introduction For my placement I worked for an organisation called Africa Unplugged, I have been given the privilege to work under Daniel Dina (Senior Project Consultant) as I will be a web developer and research assistant, he will be supervising me throughout my 12 week placement. I will be working on different projects with him but our main task is that of the Africa Unplugged concert, which will be held August 27th 2012 at the prestigious Wembley Arena. This will be the first annual African concert in Europe. The company plans on making this event an annual festival- this year being the first of many to come. “Africa Unplugged” management committee & the Black British Business Professional Association...
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...The goals of this website should be demonstrated in several forms. When I sat down with relatives to talk about the goals of this one of the first questions that I ask is why you think the site should have any goals. Often, there’s a moment of uncomfortable silence before someone replies, because everyone genially thinks that IT is tremendously hard. A couple of the answers that I got were that asking for certain web addresses maybe a disadvantage. In addition, some courses build a website for branding purposes, or to provide information to potential clients, thinking that one-way communication is a return on investment, and therefore a valid goal. Another one of the goals that a user may see is that using a website is merely to provide information is like using an airplane to drive around town without ever leaving the ground, you’re missing the real opportunity to help your business take-off by creating opportunities to follow up with qualified prospects. Measurable objectives are the specific measures we use to determine whether or not we are successful in achieving the goal. The objectives are instructions about what we want the student to be able to do. Use verbs and include specific conditions that describe to what degree the students will be able to demonstrate mastery of the task for the website that any user would love to see. Some educators call these learning outcomes; others call them measurable objectives; and yet others call them behavioral objectives because...
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...Overview Solutions, Scope of Work, and Deliverables 1. Preliminary Research 2. Strategic Planning 3. Interface Design - Graphic Design Work 4. Web application Front End Programming 5. Web application Back-end Development 6. Quality Assurance and Launch Maintenance and Hosting Seward and Co. currently hosts and maintains over 50 websites, ranging in size from very large custom CMS E-commerce websites to small personal websites. Our hosting packages are based on the budget of our clients. We do this because we feel that hosting should not interfere with our client’s main focus – their business or image. Our monthly maintenance and hosting fees usually range from $50 to $1,500 a month depending on what our clients’ needs are. Fees – special recession rates For website hosting, we are currently offering all new clients a year free hosting for shared server hosting. Payment plan and turn-around time As requested a 50% percent deposit is due to begin your project. A project the size and scope of OrganiX FOOD LOUNGE, LLC., has a turnaround of about three weeks. Turnaround time may be longer or shorter based upon the availability of information, media and text from the client. Copy writing is also available upon request. Seward & Co. Qualifications, responsibilities and commitment 1. Cutting Edge Technologies & Open Source Philosophy 2. Our experience 3. No outsourcing. Period. 4. The team allocated to this project 5. Our Work. 6. Our Principal, CEO and chief designer, Tabari...
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...review and place your custom order. In this day and age when both parents have to work, it is almost impossible to get the little one’s nursery in order. With over 30 years of experience in sewing handmade items, as well as, having a full time career in the business world, the natural progression for the business to grow is to invest in an internet site. According to market research there is a great demand for the items I am producing. Mama Mimi’s will achieve fast, significant market penetration through a solid business model. This experience will provide Mama Mimi’s with the empirical information as well as my passion to provide the baby market with a sought after product. Mama Mimi will sell its products primarily through its website. This direct to consumer approach will allow Mama Mimi’s to maintain a close relationship with the customers, therefore, opening the door to referral customers and widening the market base. Mama Mimi is entering into its first year of operation. Its products have been well received on my test market group. Marketing will be the key to the development of my brand and product...
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...GUIDE CREATING AN E COMMERCE WEB SITE: A DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE GUIDE Creating an E-commerce Web Site: A Do-It-Yourself Guide Introduction Over the past 10 years, e-commerce has been one of the fastest growing segments of the retail industry. That may seem obvious to anyone who has ever shopped online, but the size and speed of the boom has been truly astounding. There are already hundreds of thousands of online stores around the world wide web, and according to some estimates, merchants open 20,000 new e-commerce storefronts every week.1 The popularity of the online marketplace shows no signs of slowing, so now may be the perfect time to start selling on the web. There are more options for creating an e-commerce site than ever before. You can work with an e-commerce platform provider to set up an online store, or you may want to let web professionals handle the design and development of your site from start to finish. Working with services like these offer some convenience, but if you want additional flexibility and control, your best bet may be to create your site on your own. With a little know-how and some easy-to-use tools, you can develop an e-commerce site that looks and functions exactly the way you want, helping you meet the needs of your customers and your business more effectively. In this guide, you’ll learn about what goes into creating your own do-it-yourself (DIY) e-commerce web site, from picking the right tools and services you’ll need to create your...
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